ANNUAL REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2017/2018

1 MISSION San Francisco Art Institute is dedicated to the intrinsic value of art and its vital role in shaping and enriching society and Left: the individual. As a diverse community Installation view of the BFA Exhibition, of working artists and scholars, SFAI Diego Rivera Gallery, 2018. provides its students with a rigorous Photo by Alex education in the fine arts and preparation Peterson (BFA Photography, 2015). for a life in the arts through an immersive studio environment, an integrated liberal Below: Rigo 23, One Tree arts curriculum, and critical engagement mural. Photo by with the world. Trevor Hacker.

Spread:2 Performance by Tim Sullivan’s New Genres class on the rooftop amphitheatre at SFAI—Chestnut Street Campus. CONTENTS

4 FROM THE PRESIDENT

5 FROM THE BOARD CHAIR

6 HISTORY A Brief History of SFAI Firsts + Foremosts

10 NOTABLE ALUMNI

11 FACILITIES Chestnut Street Campus Fort Mason Campus Residence Halls

15 DEGREE PROGRAMS

16 NAMED SCHOLARSHIPS

18 FINANCIALS

19 EXHIBITIONS + PUBLIC PROGRAMS Galleries/Exhibition Spaces Visiting Artists + Scholars Lecture Series Public + Youth Education

22 ANNUAL GIFTS Vernissage 2018

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Students in the fountain at SFAI's Chestnut Street Campus, circa 1972. Photo by Richard Laughlin (MFA 1973). Work by Ahna Fender (BFA Painting) in the SFAI Courtyard.

3 SFAI President Gordon Knox at SFAI's Fort Mason Campus. Photo by Duy Ho.

And this is a hard job, since the work of arts education is interwoven with the realities of economic systems, social inequality and political volatility. As SFAI builds on our recent progress, we must ensure that students as well as the institution itself emerge nimble, adaptable and resilient in the face of rapid change. We must work to remove barriers to access in order LETTER FROM to provide promising artists the opportunity to realize an SFAI education and share their unique visions and contributions with the world. We have the ability, and the ethical responsibility, to THE PRESIDENT provide an educational experience grounded in the integrity of artistic practice, social relevance and preparation for a viable means of livelihood. How best to assure this outcome, for the 2017-2018 WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY YEAR FOR SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE, near future and the next generation, is a guiding question of bookended by celebrations, from the art- and confetti-filled opening of our new Fort Mason Campus our current strategic planning process overseen by the Board in Fall 2017 to the inspiring return of alumnus Kehinde Wiley as our Commencement honoree. of Trustees and involving students, faculty, staff, alumni and This was my first full academic year as SFAI’s president, and I have come away from it supporters. understanding even more deeply that SFAI is a truly beloved and important institution, poised It is my honor to lead this institution, surrounded by people to further its position in the vanguard of contemporary arts internationally and at the heart of the who are inspired by the core human values that animate Bay Area’s cultural output. our work and give generously to advance our mission. I am SFAI represents a form of cultural agency that is essential in this place and time in history. Art is wholeheartedly committed to the work ahead and look forward present in every society; it is the way in which we push against the edges of what we know in order to sharing news of future efforts. to better understand ourselves and each other, and then connect with the world around us. We tell stories and create community through the sublime communicative power of art. SFAI has been at the forefront of this pursuit for nearly 150 years, engaging with new ideas and technologies to question With gratitude, assumptions, reveal previously unseen things and captivate people's imaginations in ways that are generative and transformative. Students come to SFAI with a dedication to the deep work required to become artists and scholars, and to grow in a caring and challenging environment rooted in respect for the humanity we share and belief in the role of art in shaping our society. Our job is to educate them as adept agents of social change; to train and support individuals who are compelled to be artists and go on to unleash Gordon Knox their aesthetic and intellectual capacities in a wide range of fields. SFAI President

4 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

OFFICERS LETTER FROM Pam Rorke Levy, Chair Elizabeth Ronn, Vice Chair Juana Schurman, Secretary THE BOARD CHAIR Steven J. Spector, Treasurer In the current year, the entire SFAI community is working together on a Strategic Plan to be presented TRUSTEES Donna Abrahamson THIS PAST YEAR WAS THE 147TH YEAR OF ARTS INSTRUCTION in June for approval by the Board of Trustees. We are Agnes Bourne OFFERED AT SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE, and a year of many taking this opportunity to examine the assumptions Rebecca Chou* milestone achievements for our community. that have guided us in the past, and give serious Jonathan Cropper Marcel Houtzager We kicked off the fall 2017 semester welcoming students to our consideration to the needs of our students in a rapidly Chris Lim glorious new Fort Mason campus, 67,000 square feet of light-filled studios, changing world. What is the best way to help each of Tom Loughlin* classrooms, and public galleries. That November our public opening drew our students discover and express their unique artistic Joy Ou Una Ryan more than 4,000 celebrants who marveled at the transformation of Pier 2 from vision? What tools should we be providing them? How Jeremy Stone a single cavernous event space into a best-in-class facility for art-making and do we connect each student with the extraordinary exhibitions. Within weeks of the project’s completion, our architects at Leddy resources and opportunities that abound in the city TRUSTEES-AT-LARGE Maytum Stacy were recognized in glowing reviews that proclaimed the space that surrounds us? How can we do a better job of Don E. Hardy* “… has an unmistakable public, social presence…the confident restoration is a helping students and alumni live happy and productive Annie Leibovitz* Barry J. McGee* triumph.” (SF Chronicle, John King) lives? Brent F. Sikkema* It’s hard to believe that opening weekend was little more than a year ago. These are the questions that will drive our Since opening the Fort Mason campus we’ve staged some 60 exhibitions of discussions, as we commit ourselves once again to TRUSTEES EMERITI student and professional work between the two campuses, often working in delivering the finest arts education in the world. It will Gardiner Hempel partnership with other arts organizations. We’ve hosted more than 30 lectures be our responsibility to decide what that means today, Charles Hobson Bonnie Levinson featuring resident and visiting artists and scholars, and opened our doors to at a time when freedom of speech and expression are Howard Oringer many other Bay Area cultural organizations, who have used our spectacular openly under attack in our country; what it will mean Paul Sack event spaces to celebrate their own landmark occasions, including the Whole in 2021 on SFAI’s 150th anniversary; and what it might John Sanger mean for generations of artists to come. Jack Schafer Earth Catalog’s 50th Anniversary, a 50th anniversary convening for Leonardo/ Roselyne C. Swig The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, and an We cannot do this work without your help. As the Christopher Tellis SFMOMA benefactor event during the FOG Design+Art fair. new Chair of the SFAI Board of Trustees, I invite you This year we burnished our global reputation by expanding and to join us in the vitally important job ahead, supporting FACULTY TRUSTEES strengthening our network of relationships with leading arts organizations the education of artists whose work will define our Mads Lynnerup culture… and our place in history. Cristóbal Martínez around the world. One case in point: our pioneering work with the finest Chinese art schools, led by former President Fred Martin more than 30 years STUDENT TRUSTEES ago, paid dividends as President Gordon Knox returned to China last January Graduate Student Trustee and re-established formal partnerships with the China Academy of Art and Thank you. Kate Rannells Central Academy of Fine Arts. This set the stage for exhibition exchanges

Undergraduate Student Trustee and symposia that gather intelligence from the leading edge of arts education Frank Nunez worldwide. In May we were proud to welcome SFAI alumnus Kehinde Wiley (BFA STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES ‘99) back to campus to receive an honorary doctorate, in recognition of an Pam Rorke Levy Graduate Representative extraordinary career that includes Barack Obama’s official presidential portrait. SFAI Board Chair Eliza Mitchell He delivered a commencement address to an audience of students, faculty, Undegraduate Representative staff, and supporters, and sat down for a lively conversation with President Freddie Lopez-Daniel Gordon Knox at the Fort Mason Campus, in front of a packed audience of SFAI supporters. *Alum 5 HISTORY

Founded in 1871 by artists, scholars, and community leaders who possessed a cultural vision for the West, SFAI has produced generations of creative leaders who have profoundly shaped the cultural life of the Bay Area, United States, and world.

Artists at SFAI have been at the vanguard of the most important art movements of the last century including fine art photography, the Beat movement, Abstract Expressionism, Bay Area Figuration, avant- garde film, conceptualism, video and performance art, and social practice, and continue to advance contemporary art and the role of artists in today’s society.

Left: Pre Diego Rivera Gallery, circa 1927.

Right: Diego Rivera, The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City (detail), 1931.

6 a brief history of SFAI FIRSTS + FOREMOSTS

Left: Cover of The New Yorker magazine, February 21, 1925

Right: Diego Rivera, Hand-painted disc for The Making of a Fresco Zoopraxiscope. Showing the Building Courtesy of Kingston of a City, 1931, Museum, Surrey, fresco, 271 x 357 inches, United Kingdom gift of William Gerstle

1880 1915 1925 1927 1931

EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE THE PANAMA PACIFIC ALUMNUS REA IRVIN, ALUMNUS GUTZON DIEGO RIVERA paints his presents the first public INTERNATIONAL the first art editor ofThe BORGLUM begins work on monumental The Making showing of a motion picture EXPOSITION, New Yorker, illustrates the his very large-scale public of a Fresco Showing the at SFAI San Francisco’s first magazine’s first cover and sculpture, Mount Rushmore Building of a City at SFAI emergence on the designs its now-iconic world stage following typeface ALUMNUS HENRY the devastating 1906 KIYAMA authors the first earthquake, is a veritable graphic novel published in showcase of SFAI art + ideas the US

7 Left: Above: Beaumont Newhall, Clyfford Still, Ansel Adams at Mono 1950-A-No. 1, Lake, East Side of 1950. the Sierra, 1947. Photo by Left: Copyright 2005, the Ben Blackwell/ Annie Leibovitz, Estate of Beaumont Clyfford Still Estate cover of Rolling Stone, Newhall and January 22, 1981. Nancy Newhall Courtesy of Rolling Stone

1939 1945 1955 1968 1974

Sculptures by ANSEL ADAMS founds the ALLEN GINSBURG gives ANNIE LEIBOVITZ begins ALUMNUS DON ED ALUMNUS SARGENT first fine art photography the first public reading of photographing for Rolling HARDY opens the first CLAUDE JOHNSON, the department in the country HOWL during alumnus Stone while still an SFAI tattoo shop in the US to first African American at SFAI and faculty member Fred student focus on custom tattoo artist on the West Coast Martin’s exhibition Crate designs to achieve a national FACULTY CLYFFORD STILL, Sculptures reputation, are featured HASSEL SMITH, DAVID at the Golden Gate PARK, ELMER BISCHOFF, International Exposition RICHARD DIEBENKORN, and MARK ROTHKO make SFAI a hub for Abstract Expressionism, the first American visual art to attain international influence

8 Right: President Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley ©. Courtesy of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

Below: Still from Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, 2009. Courtesy of Summit Entertainment, LLC

Above: Archival photograph of George Kuchar.

Left: Karen Finley, Shut Up and Love Me, 2001. Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

1990 2001 2010 2015 2018

ALUMNA KAREN FINLEY FACULTY MEMBER ALUMNA KATHRYN ALUMNA LAURA ALUMNUS KEHINDE champions First Amendment GEORGE KUCHAR’s BIGELOW is the first POITRAS is the first point WILEY is the first African rights in her renegade Hold Me While I’m Naked woman to win an Academy of contact for government American artist to paint performance work and a (1966) is named one of the Award for Best Director, for whistleblower Edward an official, Smithsonian- lawsuit against the National 100 best films of the 20th The Hurt Locker Snowden, as captured in her commissioned portrait of Endowment for the Arts century by the Village Voice Oscar-winning documentary a former President with his Critics’ Poll Citizenfour portrait of Barack Obama

9 “SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE IS WHERE I HONED IN ON MY SKILLS NOTABLE ALUMNI AND IDENTITY AS AN ARTIST, and I’ve carried that experience with me throughout Annie Leibovitz, Aziz + Cucher, Barry McGee, my career. Art schools empower young people, giving a sense of art history as well Carlos Villa, Catherine Opie, David Ireland, Debora as the tools to question those histories and Iyall, Devendra Banhart, Don Ed Hardy, Enrique re-envision our culture. I hope my story Chagoya, Geoffrey Farmer, Harrell Fletcher, Howard and work will inspire them to claim the full capacities of their education for powerful Fried, Jerry Garcia, Karen Finley, Karen Topakian, communication and social change.” Kathryn Bigelow, Kehinde Wiley, Kota Ezawa, Lance Acord, Laura Kipnis, Laura Poitras, Lewis Baltz, —KEHINDE WILEY (BFA 1999) Manuel Neri, Michael Heizer, Nao Bustamante, Paul RECIPIENT OF THE 2018 HONORARY DOCTOR McCarthy, Peter Pau, Rex Ray, Richard Diebenkorn, OF FINE ARTS DEGREE AND KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT COMMENCEMENT ON Rigo 23, Roxanne Quimby, Sharon Lockhart, Spike MAY 18, 2018 Top to bottom:

Jonze, Toba Khedoori Kehinde Wiley addresses the graduating class at SFAI's Commencement Ceremony, Nourse Theater, 2018. Photo by Hewitt Photography. Above: Kehinde Wiley, Kern Alexander Study I, 2011. Gutzon Berglum, Mount Rushmore. Courtesy of Kehinde Wiley Studio. 10 FACILITIES Left to right: Aerial view of SFAI—Chestnut Street Campus, 1975.

Aerial view of SFAI—Fort Mason Campus.

1111 Chestnut Street Campus

Since 1926, SFAI has occupied 800 Chestnut Street in Russian Hill, in a building designed by Bakewell & Brown that incorporates elements of both Italian and Spanish colonial styles. It features a 1931 fresco painted by Diego Rivera, and murals throughout the building by other prominent artists of the period. In 1969, SFAI opened a striking Corbusian concrete addition designed by architect Paffard Keatinge-Clay.

The campus was registered as a San Francisco landmark in 1976 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

SFAI’S CHESTNUT STREET CAMPUS HAS: + Studios for painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, and performance + State-of-the-art digital labs supporting sound, photography, film, video, design, web programming, and print + Osher Lecture Hall with rooftop amphitheater + Anne Bremer Memorial Library + 4,500 square feet of exhibition galleries open to the public. + Emanuel Walter and Atholl McBean Galleries, a professional exhibition space featuring work by international contemporary artists + Diego Rivera Gallery, a student-run exhibition space + Prentice and Paul Sack Still Lights Galleries for photo-based work

+ SFAI Café Left to right, top to bottom:

+ Gender-neutral bathrooms Front entrance to SFAI—Chestnut Street Campus. Students working in the Painting Studio. Interior view of Anne Bremer Memorial Library. Photo by Marco David (BFA 2018). View of the Ceramics Studio. 12 Plein Air Painting, 2014. 12 Fort Mason Campus

In Fall 2017, SFAI opened a new campus at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC) in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The 67,000 square foot renovated pier was designed by Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects (LMSA), recipients of the American Institute of Architect’s 2017 Architecture Firm Award. The building has received multiple awards in recognition of its excellence in environmental design and adaptive re-use.

SFAI’S FORT MASON CAMPUS HAS: + 160 art studios for students, faculty, and visiting artists + 4,300 square feet of exhibition galleries open to the public. + Main Gallery + Gray Box Galery + Schafer Gallery + 24/7 access for students and visiting artists + Performance/video/installation spaces + Digital media suite and woodshop facility + Student lounge and meeting areas + Seminar room with direct views of the Golden Gate Bridge + Gender-neutral bathrooms Left to right, top to bottom:

(1-2) Students and friends at the opening of SFAI's new Fort Mason Campus, 2017. Photos by Drew Altizer. Interior view of the nural wall, SFAI—Fort Mason Campus. Photo by Bruce Damonte. Installation view of Jordon Holms’s (MA/ MFA 2019) artworks, MFA Exhibition, Schafer Gallery, SFAI—Fort Mason Campus. Photo by Drew Altizer. View of Jon Rubin banners. Photo by Alex Peterson (BFA 2015). 13 13 Residence Halls

SFAI maintains two residence halls in the Lower Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, with a combined capacity of 150 beds.

Last year, SFAI made plans to relocate to a newly built residence hall, City Gardens, developed by Panoramic Interests at 12th and Harrison Streets.

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SFAI Students and PreCollege Residence Advisors at a residence hall dance party. Photo by Miles Roa. Filmmaking in the Residence Halls. Photo by Kiersten Mercado. Exterior rendering of a a newly built residence hall, City Gardens, developed by Panoramic Interests. 14 Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Art + Technology Film New Genres Painting Photography Printmaking Sculpture

Bachelor of Arts (BA) History + Theory of Contemporary Art

Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Studio Art Optional emphases: Art + Technology Film New Genres Painting Photography DEGREE Printmaking PROGRAMS Sculpture Master of Arts (MA) History + Theory of Contemporary Art Exhibition + Museum Studies WE EMBODY AN INTENSE CRITICALITY THAT IS Dual Degree MA/MFA History and Theory of Contemporary Art (MA) / Studio Art (MFA) SOMETIMES UNNERVING. Exhibition and Museum Studies (MA) / Studio Art (MFA) SFAI IS NOT FOR Low-Residency MFA in Studio Art THE FAINT OF HEART. Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Studio Art

Above: Student working in sculpture class, 2017. Photo by Hewitt Photography. 15 15 Barbara McKee Memorial 2017–2018 Scholarship NAMED Danielle Melen Bernard Osher Scholars SCHOLARSHIPS Michael Larocco Ian Bender Daisy Caxton Smith Kevin Coaguila Allan B. Stone Scholarship Shatira Herrera Alex Malfero Keisha Kidd Hector Barajas Quinton Isaacs Whitney Humphreys Alfred Lopez-Daniel Gianiny Orozco Anne Bremer Scholarship Above: Painting by Danielle Melen (BFA 2018). Shannon Sitzler Livia Westcott-Lahar Samantha Companatico Haru Urushido Ruvianne Fetsco

Left: Whitney Humphreys (MFA/MA 2020), Improvisation within Constraints, 2018.

Right: Installation view of Eric Carson: The New Cosmograph, Younhee Paik (MFA 1973) Studio for Art and Music, 2017. Photo by Marco David.

16 Carlos Villa Scholarship Livia Westcott

Corinne and Stanton Sobel Memorial Scholarship Molly Sullivan Alyssa Toews Carlos Franco Villagomez

Ellen Hart Bransten Scholarship David Dugoncevic Mary H. Keesling Scholarship Giuliana Funkhouser Hart Lipton Painting Scholarship Anne La Freniere Madelon J. Sneed Scholarship Sidonie Roddam Harlan Jackson Diversity Scholars

Dana Aela Nancy E. Martin Scholarship Danette Bouzanquet Gianiny Orozco Alysia Davis Joseignacio Ramirez Rick Cramer Memorial Scholarship Rafael Bustillo

Younhee Paik Scholarship Emily Benz

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David Dugoncevic (BFA 2018), Worlds Apart.

Rafael Bustillos (MFA 2018), Utopic Entropy, 2018. Photo by Hewitt Photography.

Emily Benz (MFA 2018), Albina, 2017.

17 FINANCIAL AID (2017-2018) FINANCIALS (2017-2018)

84% $25.5M Students receiving institutional aid Annual operating budget

$16,175 $10M Average award Endowment

50% Students receiving state and federal financial aid

College funded scholarships

Instructional REVENUE EXPENSES Institutional support Facilities

Student Services

Auxiliary enterprises & Housing

23% Public programs 13% Tuition and fees Restructuring Contributions 8% Development & Events Auxiliary enterprises 20% 77% Depreciation Net investment gains 10% 14% Interest Expenses Other Academic support

18 EXHIBITIONS + PUBLIC PROGRAMS

50 Annual student exhibitions on campus

10,064 Annual visitors to the Diego Rivera Gallery

6,246 Annual visitors to the Walter and McBean Galleries

7,886 Annual visitors to the Main Gallery at Fort Mason

Left to right, top to bottom: 6,584 View of the MFA Exhibition, Annual visitors to the Schafer Gallery SFAI—Fort Mason Campus, 2018. Photo by Hewitt Photography. Students and visitors at SFAI CONCENTRATE: Student Art Sale + Open Studios, SFAI—Fort Mason Campus, 2018. Photo by Alex Peterson (BFA 2015). 41,491 Installation by Stevie Southard (BFA 2018), BFA Exhibition, SFAI—Chestnut Annual participants in Exhibitions + Public Programs Street Campus, 2018. Photo by Alex Peterson (BFA 2015).

19 2017–2018 EXHIBITIONS

Walter and McBean Galleries Chestnut Street Campus This gallery presents several exhibitions per year and commission new works from emerging and established artists. Shows included: Katrín Sigurdardóttir: Metamorphic, In Around Beyond, Philippe Rahm: The Anthropocene Style

Diego Rivera Gallery Chestnut Street Campus New works by BFA, MFA, and post-baccalaureate artists. Shows included: Lightly Heavy, Languages of (A)scape, Internal Something, Poetics of Displacement, In My Blood, HELL, 2nd Open Book Show, Portraits in Ceramics, FOOTWORK, Paint Club, Material Translations, Le Salon de Diego: 2017 Alumni Exhibition, WHOOPS, BFA Fall Exhibition, Public Education Fall Exhibition, City Studio, Incli(nation), If Opposites Are Equal, Narrative Element, FLOW, You Were Here, Aspects of the Contemporary and the Mythic, Be a Good Citizen, New Images of Women, decay/delay/evade/endure, New Genres Salon, The Love Below, Too Much Goodness Is a Sin, MA Collaborative Project, Keep the Family Close, Post-Baccalaureate Exhibition, BFA Exhibition

Main Gallery Fort Mason Campus A flagship exhibition space anchoring the front of the pier that will host an array of an array of site-responsive, curated and commissioned projects. Shows included: In Around Beyond, Isaac Julien: Playtime, Bill Fontana: Landscape Sculpture with Foghorns, Martin Machado: Fluid State

Scully Gray Box Fort Mason Campus A dedicated installation, film/video and performance space. Shows included:Isaac Julien: Top to bottom, left to right: Playtime, Bill Fontana: Landscape Sculpture with Foghorns. Installation view of Martin Machado: Fluid State, Main Gallery, Fort Schafer Gallery Fort Mason Campus Mason Campus, 2018. Photo by Marco David (BFA 2018). A student-directed space for graduate students to curate and present their work. Shows Alexander Newman (BFA 2018), The included: On Blue, This Doesn’t Look Like Art, The Act of Seeing, American Typhoon, Happy Birth of Venus/Three Venuses, 2017. Accidents, Landing on the Veil, Contact Print, The Prom Show, Strange Stirring, De Profundis, Vasudhaa Narayanan (MFA 2018) Circo Duflar, The Abject Goddess, Inversion/Isolation, WikiHow to Set Up an Art Exhibition performs Kollam at the opening – Completing the 10 Steps, On Bloom, Lining Is Space, A Voyage to Lilliput, Gleaning/ reception of the MFA Exhibition, Gleaming, L’enfant Terrible, Where’s the Napkins?, Take Your Broken Heart, Wise Wound, SFAI—Fort Mason Campus, 2018. Lights, General Store, Ghost Town Installation view of Phillipe Rahm: Anthropocene, Walter and McBean Galleries, SFAI—Chestnut Street Campus, 2018. Photo by Marco Mural Wall Fort Mason Campus David. A large central mural wall at the heart of the building will host long-term rotating artist commissions. The first, by alumna and faculty member Alicia McCarthy, was completed August 21, 2017 to mark the building’s opening and will be on view through 2019. 20 Graduate Lecture Series // Public + Youth Education Visiting Artists + City Studio (participant ages 11–19) Scholars Lecture Series Free arts instruction to more than 150 youth from underserved communities in satellite locations throughout San Francisco and Oakland, in partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs and Graduate Lecture Series events are held on Fridays at 4:30pm and other community organizations. Visiting Artists + Scholars lecures are held on Tuesdays at 7pm. Lectures are held in the Osher Lecture Hall at Chestnut Street Campus. Young Artist Program (participant ages 13–15) A summer-intensive program for youth that offers a focused and fun environment for exploring new techniques and developing artistic expertise in photography, drawing, and painting. 2017/2018 SPEAKERS INCLUDED:

+ Jane Livingston + Stefan Kürten + Postcommodity + Lava Thomas PreCollege Program (participant ages 16–18) + Mel Ziegler + Ingrid LaFleur A four-week, four-college-credit course of study in the arts that connects participants to + Arnold Dreyblatt + Michelle Handelman renowned professional artists who help young artists build skills and develop their portfolios. + Camille Norment + Terry Powers + Miguel Calderón + Xiaoyu Weng + Donna J. Haraway + Gala Porras-Kim Public Education (participant ages 18 and up) + Laura Kipnis + Mike Henderson Invites artists and creative individuals to join non-credit evening and weekend courses. + Liz Cohen + Guillermo Galindo + Gunvor Nelson + Jenny Odell + Dorothy Wiley

Above: Jenny Odell, Shoot Your Computer (from Neo-Surreal), 2017.

Left: Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, Can’t Help Myself, 2016 Courtesy of Xiaoyu Weng; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Collection, 2016. Public Education Photo by David Heald Manager Ileana Tejada © Sun Yuan and Peng Yu with PreCollege students in the studio, 2018.

21 $45,000 and above $10,000 to $19,999 ANNUAL GIFTS Agnes Bourne Anonymous (3) Matt Brooks and Pamela Rorke Levy Ann Dabovich SUPPORT Grants for the Arts Jennifer Emerson The Harker Fund Étant donnés Contemporary Art, Koret Foundation a program of the FACE Foundation Since 1871, San Francisco Art Institute Una Ryan Fort Mason Foundation has been a vital convening place for arts John M. Sanger Todd Hosfelt communities and an international leader in Regina and John Scully H. William* and Roxana Keland fine art education. Jeremy Stone Gordon Knox Bonnie Levinson and Donald Kay SFAI gratefully acknowledges the $20,000 to $44,999 Chris Lim supporters who enable it to continue Anonymous Fred T. Martin* serving both students and the general Rebecca Chou* Mental Insight Foundation public through access to and engagement Henry Luce Foundation Amanda Michael and Michael Harrington with contemporary artistic and cultural Juana Schurman and Tony Ligamari* National Endowment for the Arts practices. The following gifts of $500 and swissnex San Francisco Joy Ou greater were received from July 1, 2017 Christopher Tellis and Isabella Kirkland Helen and Blair Pascoe through June 30, 2018. The Estate of Marie Therese Rumi Ueno Elizabeth and Karl Ronn Steven Spector and Robert Ripps

$5,000 to $9,999 Joachim and Nancy Bechtle Coppola Family Fund David Dworman* Edna M. Reichmuth Educational Fund Peggy McKee Lamoree Phil and Ellie Loughlin Walter & Elise Haas Fund Diane B. Wilsey

22 $2,500 to $4,999 $1,000 to $2,499 (cont'd) Adaline Kent Memorial Fund Hiro Narita* Mike Chambers* Steven and Nancy Oliver Josh Lipton and Wendy Clough Mauree Jane Perry John and Leslie McQuown Jane* and Larry Reed Jim Newman and Jane Ivory Lili Ruane* Paul Sack Ed Ruscha Nan H. Schwanfelder Judith Snyderman* Robin Wright and Ian Reeves Roselyne C. Swig Alan and Joanne Vidinsky $1,000 to $2,499 Beth Weissman and Kevin Boru Richard Alpert* Karen* and John Diefenbach Anonymous (2) Cynthia Bock $500 to $999 The Estate of D.A. Brooke Verda Alexander* Enid Busser Harry and Mary Anderson Nicolas Cage Brown Paper Tickets, LLC Kit Cameron* and Peter Vaccaro Christopher R. Coppola* Sara Carter* Deborah Remington Charitable Trust Donald and Jillian Clark Diana Fuller Christian and Jacqueline Erdman Jack Gray* Carolyn Zecca Ferris* and Timothy Ferris Lee Gregory George Lucas Family Foundation Toby and Jerry Levine Brian Gross Mary and Mark Lipian Hartman and O'Brien Charitable Fund Catherine Peck Anne Herbst* Jeannene Przyblyski and Eric Jaye Stephen and Kathy Hirschfeld Helen H. Raiser James C. Hormel Anne Shulock Mady Jones Audrey Tanner Morton D. Kirsch Trudi Vetterlein* and John Silvestrini Wanda Kownacki Brigitta* and Martin Wolman *Alum The Mary See Foundation Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman Ronnie and Marci Morgan

23 Master of Fine Arts Preview $10,000 and more * Agnes Bourne VERNISSAGE Matt Brooks and Pamela Rorke Levy MAY 10, 2018 Elizabeth and Karl Ronn Una Ryan Vedder Price, PC *noun: ver·nis·sage (ver-ni-'säzh): $5,000 and more A private showing or preview of an art exhibition. G2 Insurance Bonnie Levinson and Donald Kay Borrowed from French—day before an exhibition Joy Ou opens reserved for artists to varnish and put Panoramic Interests finishing touches on their paintings; literally, from John M. Sanger vernisser «to varnish». Steven Spector and Robert Ripps Christopher Tellis The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts US Hostels

$2,500 and more Anonymous Kathy and Stephen Hirschfeld Helen and Blair Pascoe Pro Guard Security Services Sarah Ratchye Juana Schurman and Tony Ligamari Jeremy Stone Roselyne C. Swig Ann and Marshall Turner

$1,250 and more Rebecca Chou Diana Fuller mack5 Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects Judith Snyderman 24 Fort Mason Campus 2 Marina Blvd, Pier 2 San Francisco, CA 94133

Chestnut Street Campus 800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133 sfai.edu

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